番仔鬼
Chinese
foreigner; Westerner | ghost; sly; crafty | ||
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trad. (番仔鬼) | 番仔 | 鬼 | |
simp. #(番仔鬼) | 番仔 | 鬼 |
Pronunciation
- Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): hoan-á-kúi
- Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, General Taiwanese)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hoan-á-kúi
- Tâi-lô: huan-á-kuí
- Phofsit Daibuun: hoan'afkuie
- IPA (Xiamen): /huan⁴⁴⁻²² a⁵³⁻⁴⁴ kui⁵³/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /huan⁴⁴⁻³³ a⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ kui⁴¹/
- IPA (Taipei): /huan⁴⁴⁻³³ a⁵³⁻⁴⁴ kui⁵³/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, General Taiwanese)
Noun
番仔鬼
- (Xiamen and Taiwanese Hokkien, derogatory, ethnic slur) white devil; Western devil; foreign devil (term of abuse for Westerners)
Synonyms
Dialectal synonyms of 外國人 (“foreigner”) [map]
Dialectal synonyms of 西方人 (“Westerner; Caucasian”) [map]